A special symbol of Samia's political consolidation was the re-admission to the CCM a year ago of Bernard Membe who had joined long-term oppositionist Zitto Kabwe's ACT-Wazalendo party and stood for the presidency on that ticket against Magufuli in 2020...
ACT-Wazalendo's candidate for the union presidency is Bernard Membe who served the CCM for decades at the centre of the state first as a national security analyst in State House then as a member of parliament and finally as a cabinet minister before he defected (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...
Kabwe is also facing competition for the ACT-Wazalendo party's nomination from former Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe who last week joined the ACT after being expelled from Magufuli's Chama Cha Mapinduzi in February (AC Vol 60 No 19 Magufuli's challengers recant)...
The leaked telephone conversation recordings are purported to reveal Nnauye and fellow former minister Bernard Membe planning the media release of the letter...
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Bernard Membe has taken the legal route suing Musiba for libel for accusing him of seeking to undermine President Magufuli...
By December he was accusing Bernard Membe of undermining the President...
Equal disappointment was in store for Lowassa's main rival Foreign Minister Bernard Membe who for a few short hours became the obvious front-runner among the five nominees passed by the party's Ethics and Security Committee...
It has also opened up the field to other contenders the most ambitious being Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe...
Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe recently described it as 'by far the most serious challenge' Tanzania has to face...
Vol 55 No 13 |
- EGYPT
- ETHIOPIA
Tanzania has shown some sympathy: in early June Foreign Minister Bernard Membe said that the CFA should be reviewed to account for the fact that Egypt was a desert country totally dependent on the Nile...
However Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Membe said he did not think that such engagement with the North Korean military would be in breach of UN sanctions although he did not admit relations...